What a major retraction of research findings on personality types means for your health—and why open data policies could help prevent a similar incident going forward, by swhitbo
Who wouldn’t believe such strong claims, especially when “supported” by both observational and intervention studies? That personality “in fact” can not only cause but cure terminal illness—as the evidence contained in these studies was supposed to show—would provide a new avenue of both treatment and hope for people seeking to prolong their lives when traditional medical methods couldn't accomplish either.
Having first established that Grossarth-Maticek was never employed at the IoP , the committee went on to investigate all the articles published by the two authors together and though having no access to the data were able to dig up some attempted replications showing the original findings to be spurious, at best.
Moving on to the substance of the inquiry, the Kings College committee cites a handful of studies published even back in the late 1980s that questioned the Eysenck/Grossarth-Maticek findings.
The answer seems to be deeply embedded in the nature of scientific publishing. Researchers, and the editors who evaluate their work prior to publication, rely on experts in the field to determine whether the findings pass muster. The process of peer review is intended to ensure that every dark corner of a study’s data is examined with scrutiny and if not, to demand the authors to revise or seek another publishing outlet. Clearly, something failed in the case of this line of investigation.
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